I enjoy xnview pocket very much on my Fujitsu-Siemens N560 and I would like to use it as a picture frame/picture slide show viewer. The pictures I normally view using xnview are holiday photos about 700k-1.2M in size. Unfortunatelly, I like viewing the images in full screen mode (as slideshow) and they take about 2 seconds to load and render. The image resolution is about 1600x1200.

I've tried with other programs (PDAMill Viewer for instance or SPB Imageer) and it loads and renders the images pretty quickly (in about 0.5 seconds), so the limitation isn't in the storage card speed.

Is there anything you can do to speed up jpeg rendering? I'm thinking other programs don't decode the whole file and thus are faster (and the quality difference on a small display isn't that upsetting).

If you choose to implement this fast jpeg rendering, it should probably be as an option.

I realize this may be a lot of work, but maybe you can tune some parameters in the jpeg rendering process and obtain a faster decoding speed.

mad_ady wrote:
Is there anything you can do to speed up jpeg rendering? I'm thinking other programs don't decode the whole file and thus are faster (and the quality difference on a small display isn't that upsetting).

To answer your question - yes, I use Fit to window to view my pictures.

I ran some tests with various sizes of pictures, and for a picture of 8Mpx (2.5MB - 3264x2448) it takes about 4-8 seconds for the picture to load. If I am using a different viewer (CM ImageViewer http://www.pocketcm.com/imageviewer.php) the same images load (progressively) in about 1 second on the same hardware. So, it seems there is a major difference in the way jpegs are decoded.

If you need, I can send you sample photos or run tests to get more information.

mad_ady wrote:Hello, sorry for my long absence - I lost track of this thread...

To answer your question - yes, I use Fit to window to view my pictures.

I ran some tests with various sizes of pictures, and for a picture of 8Mpx (2.5MB - 3264x2448) it takes about 4-8 seconds for the picture to load. If I am using a different viewer (CM ImageViewer http://www.pocketcm.com/imageviewer.php) the same images load (progressively) in about 1 second on the same hardware. So, it seems there is a major difference in the way jpegs are decoded.

If you need, I can send you sample photos or run tests to get more information.